User:TomashPilshchik
Tomash Pilshchik
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My Efforts
Massachusetts Streets
I am mapping the area to the west of Springfield, Massachusetts and the area to the north and east of Hartford, Connecticut.
I have found that the imported data for Massachusetts is pretty accurate regarding the location of streets. However, it is not completely up-to-date and does not include many non-street objects such as railways, lakes and rivers.
Connecticut Streets
The street data for Connecticut imported from TIGER is badly out-of-date and indicates their positions only approximately. I am using a few GPS traces to align the Yahoo aerial photographs and then using the photographs to adjust the street positions.
H & H Canal
I am attempting to locate and map the remains of the Hampshire and Hampden Canal which once ran from Southwick, Mass. to North Hampden Mass. There is an article about the canal in the Valley Advocate.
My Notes
Here are some notes on using and contributing to OSM. WHen I get a clearer picture of some of these issues, I may push some of this information into the relevant wiki pages.
Websites
Contacting Other Users
- Mapping Project Pages:
Tagging
- Map_Features page is the starting point.
- United_States_roads_tagging translation of US highway classifications to OSM classifications
Editors
There are three major editors for OSM. They are:
- Potlatch: runs in browser, requires flash
- JOSM: runs in JVM, more features than others, interface uses a lot of shift modifiers and other things that are not obvious
- Merkaartor -- not as capable as JOSM, but much easier to figure out
- Merkaartor_doc_0.12 Documentation in OSM wiki
- Official Manual
- QuickCheck experiment in semi-automated editing
- Cloudmade's Mapzen
Web Slippy Maps
- Public
- The front page of openstreetmap.org has a slippy map.
- Informationfreeway.org slippy map has numerous layers.
- Cloudmade provides a slippy map API and OSM tiles in various styles.
- OSM_Inspector is a series of slippy maps which highlight possible errors in the OSM data.
- Keepright is another slippy map which highlights possible errors.
- Openstreetbugs looks like a place to report what one can't fix
- Tiles@Home
- TopOSM Topographic Map of Massachusetts
- Tools to Create
- Openlayers can be used to put a slippy map on your own website.
- HTML5
Gtk Map Widgets
Downloading OSM Data
- Planet.osm Downloading whole database or extracted chunks
- API_v0.6
- XAPI The Extended API
- Tile data servers
- Trapi sounds promising, sample URL: [4]
- OJW's_tile_data_server
- Server-Side Script (documentation is confusing)
- Osmosis -- program for processing change sets, may be useful for mirroring
- Extracts by Cloudmade
Loading OSM Data onto GPS Receivers
- For Garmin
- Premade
- mkgmap -- Converts OSM data to Garmin format
- Srtm2osm -- Downloads NASA RADAR data and creates contours
- Topographic_maps_for_garmin_devices
- Online TYP Editor
- MapTk -- Free (but not OS) Garmin IMG file manipulation utility
- OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Mass_Storage_Mode -- How to mount the file system of the GPS an place files
- cferrero.net -- Guide to TYP files
- cferrero.net -- Wiki
- Stephano's Linotype
- For Mobile Phones
Creating Paper Maps
These programs and websites may prove useful for creating paper maps.
- gpx2png.pl is Perl script which downloads tiles from OSM tile servers, stitches them together, draws GPX traces and waypoints on them, and creates a PNG image.
- Reportlab Toolkit is a Python library for producing PDF files. It is easy to use. I find it useful for turning map images created using Thomas Fischer's script into proper atlas pages.
- The Walking Papers project provides a way to print paper maps. It is intended that one then mark up these maps, scan them, and send them back for data entry.
- maposmatic.org is a web service for printing city maps
Renderers
- Renderers_feature_list
- Mapnik
- Pyrender
- User_talk:Ojw -- author's talk page
- Rana -- by same author, somewhat related
- Mapgen.pl
- Kothic
Routing
Geocoding Addresses
There is not yet a way to geocode an address using OSM data. However, a preliminary schema has been devised for representing street address data in OSM and data entry is beginning.
- Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema Schema proposal, includes link to address geocoding implementation
- Key:addr -- As approved
- The Cloudmade web service API includes an address geocoder
Importing
- Import/Shapefile
- Shp-to-osm.jar -- Simple to use and works
- ogr2osm -- Little documentation, but promising
- shp2osm and polyshp2osm -- requires external coordinate translation
- Guidance
- Import/Guidelines
- Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct -- applies to imports and fixbots
- Imports mailing list
- Import/Software
- File formats:
Massachussetts
- Law defining state border
- MassGIS website
- List of town GIS websites
- OSM MassGIS page
- Layers we might want to import:
- Layers List
- Community Boundaries (Towns) without coast -- traced from maps
- County Boundaries
- Town Boundaries -- from actual measurement of boundary marker positions, includes coastline
- Assessor's Parcels
- Cleanup:
- Projects:
- TopOSM -- Shaded relief maps from MassGIS and OSM
Connecticut
Other Data Sources
- National_Hydrography_Dataset
- water.usgs.gov
- US Geological Survey (WMS and downloadable data)
- Page of links to maps and WMS servers
